英字新聞の英語:上がる

英字新聞の英語:上がる

4月27日の新聞の記事にこんな英文が出ていました。

1)Nippon Oil profit soared 27% in ’05 as crude prices spiked.

2)Nippon Oil Corp said Wednesday its net profits surged more than one-quarter in fiscal 2005 on the back of soaring crude oil prices.

3)Net profit at the nation’s largest oil refiner jumped 26.6 percent to Yen166.5 billion from the previous year on revenue that rose by 24.2
percent to Yen 6.12 trillion.

4)World oil prices have rocketed to record highs recently on worries about the nuclear standoff involving major producer Iran, violence in Iraq, the outlooks for US stockpiles and rising demand in India and China.

ここに出ている下の単語はみんな「上がる」という意味。
Soar
Spike
Surge
Jump
Rise
Rocket

日本語にも「高騰」とか「急騰」とかの感情を伴った表現はあるけど、
Rocket(ロケット)なんて表現があるなんて、すごいです。